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Emergent effects of heavy metal pollution at a population level: Littorina brevicula a study case.
Marine pollution bulletin - 1 Jan 2003
Kim Sook-Jung, Rodriguez-Lanetty Mauricio, Suh Jae-Hwa, Song Jun-Im
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Changes in genetic variability and allele frequency can be responses from natural populations when encountering a novel contaminated environment. The genetic diversity and population structuring of natural populations of the gastropod Littorina brevicula from heavy-metal polluted and unpolluted environments along the southeast coast of Korea were examined using two mtDNA markers, cyt b and ND6. This study applied...
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